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Title	Charities
Description	Benefactions to the parish were often entrusted for administration to the incumbent or churchwardens. Following the Local Government Act of 1894 charities were divided into civil and ecclesiastical classes, and control of the incumbent/churchwardens restricted to the latter.
Related Material	See also Charity Reports Wiltshire Vol. I Northern Division and Vol. II Southern Division held in searchroom which detail endowments in the parish or other area concerned which had, up to the date of the Report, been brought to the official notice of the Charity Commissioners as subject to the Charitable Trusts Act.

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